Tender



E. E. HICKEN Oct. 8:, 1929.

TENDER Filed Jan. 12, 1929 4 Sheets-Sheet E. E. HICKEN Oct. 8, 1929.

TENDER Filed Jan. 12, 1929 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 06L 8, 1929. HlCKEN 1,731,102

TENDER Filed Jan. 12, 1929 4 Sheets-$heet 3 E. E. HICKEN Oct. 8, I929.

TENDER Filed Jan. 12, 51929 4 Shoots-Shoot 4 Patented Get. 8, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TENDER Application filed January 12, 1929. Serial No. 332,210.

l\ Iy invention relates to certain improvements in locomotive tenders, of the type having a cast metal base frame to which the sheet metal bodies of the tanks are secured, the base frame forming part of the bottom of the tank section and fuel section of the tender. The object of my present invention is to provide the base frame with laterally projecting arms which support the body portion and to which the sheet metal of the body portion is secured.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of my improved locomotive tender;

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on the line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional View on the line 33, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line i4, 20 Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5 5, Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the base frame; and

Fig. 7 is a side view of the base frame.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the base frame of the tender, made in a single casting, having a longitudinal girder 2 extending the full length thereof. This girder is in the 30 form of a box in crosssection and has an upper plate 3 and a lower plate 1, the lower plate having a series of openings 5 in the underside to lighten the structure, while in the girder are a series of cross-webs 6 having openings 7 for the same purpose as the openings 5.

The top plate 3 of the girder is extended 011 each side as shown at 2, at the fuel section, Fig. 5, and these extensions form the bottom of the fuel section and have upwardly extending flanges as indicated at 2", while a transverse flange 2 projects from the casting at the rear of the fuel section.

The side partition plates 8 which separate the fuel section from the water section are secured to the flanges 2*, while the rear partition plate 9 is secured to the flange 2 The top plate 3 of the girder extends slightly beyond the girder in the Water section and as indicated in Fig. 3.

by rivets or other fastenings.

Projecting laterally from the longitudinal girder are a series of brackets 10 whichextend to a point near the sides of the tender for the purpose of supporting the tender body. Connecting these brackets are webs 11. These webs not only strengthen the brackets but form part of the floor of the water section of the tender. 1

The braces 12 extend from the upper edges of the girder to the brackets in the water section, and webs l3 connect the upper plate 3 with the brackets under the fuel section of the tender.

The forward end of the base section is in the form of a bumper 14, and the coupling head 15 is cast integral with the said base frame. Atthe rear end of the tender is a bumper section 16 shaped as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

At the forward end of the base frame are two end flanges 17 curved at their outer ends as at 18. The end plates 19 of the body section fit against these curved flanges and are secured to thepartition plates 8 and the. side plates 20 of the tender.

At the rear end of the tender, the end section 21 is in the form of an upwardly projecting flange extending from side-to-side of the tender, and is curved at each end as at 22. The sheet metal end plate 23 of the body of the tender fits against this end flange 21 of the base and is secured to the side plates 20 The side plates 20, in the present instance not only form the sides of the tender body bui are turned in as at 24, forming part of the bottom of the water section of the tender, the portions 24 resting directly upon the brackets 10 of the base frame and are secured to said brackets at their inner ends by rivets 25 or other fastening means, so that the bottom of the tender is formed by the inturned portions 24f of the side plates and the webs 11 of the brackets and the longitudinal girder section 2, making a very substantial construction.

The Water section of the body portion is reinforced by transverse plates 26 which also actas dash platesand are perforated as at 27 in the present instance, the plates being attached to T shapes 28 on the inner side'of the said plates 20 and to the root pla e 29 of the water section of the tender by angle shapes 30. Alternating with the plates are vertical dash plates 31 which are secured to the sides 20 in the same manner as the plates 26, and to the roof 29 and inturned plates 24; of the tender. in the manner shown in 3.

Transverse braces and dash plates 32 e tend from the side plates 20 to the partition plates 8, and are also attached to the inclined plates 8, which, with the plates 8, separate the fuel section from the water section of the tender as clearly shown in Fig. 5. 9 is the inclined back plate of the partition plate forming a continuation of the partition 9.

Longitudinal braces and dash plates er;- tend from the plate 9 to the rear end plate 23 of the tender and are secured to the transverse plates 26 as shown in plan view, Fig.

By the above construction, a comparatively light tender can be made by utilizing a casting as the base which extends the full length of the tender and which has transverse brackets projecting therefrom at intervals throughout its length, upon which the body of the tender rests and to which it is secured.

While I have illustrated the side plates 20 with turned-in sections 2: made in a single piece, it will be understood that the sheet metal plates may be made in one or more pieces riveted 0r welded together.

I claim 1. The combination in a locomotive tender, of acast metal base extending the full length of the tender and having a central longitudinal girder and laterally projecting brackets spaced a given distance apart, with sheet metal plates forming the sides of the tender which are turned inwards and rest upon the brackets of the base and to which said plates are secured.

2. The combination in a locomotive tender, of a cast metal base extending the full length of the tender, having bumpers at each end and a series of transverse projecting ribs extending near the sides of the tender, with sheet metal side members and end members,

said side members being turned in at the bot-' tom and resting upon the brackets of the base and secured thereto, a portion of the oase and the inturned portion of the side members forming the bottom of the tender.

3. The combination in a locomotive tender, of acast metal base extending from end to end of the tender and consisting of a central girder having laterally projecting brackets, said brackets extending to a point near the sides of the tender and having bumpers at each end and projecting sections, the sheet metal ends of the tender body resting against these end projections, and sheet metal sides turned inwards at their lower ends and resting upon the brackets of the base section and secured thereto and to the end plates of the body, a portion of the base section and the inturned portions of the side plates forming a bottom of the water section of the tender.

4. The combination in a locomotive tender, of a cast metal base having a central longitudinal girder and laterally projecting brackets spaced a given distance apart, the longitudinal girder being in the form of a hollow beam, the upper plate of the beam er;- tending on each side of the beam and "forming he bottom of the fuel section, the brackets projecting laterally from a point below the upper plate; sheet metal side plates forming the sides of the tender, said plates being turned inwards and resting upon the brackets and secured to the base; and partition plates separating the fuel section from the water section of the tender, being secured to the extendedportions'of the top plate of the girder.

ELMER E. HTCKEN. 

